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Dalewyn 9 months ago | parent | context | favorite | on: XZ backdoor story – Initial analysis

>One can only imagine they felt a great deal of panic and despair as the security community lit up the issue,

Jia Tan mook: "Sir, they found us out."

Jia Tan officer: "What's the sitrep, are they coming for us? Are they getting our operatives in the field?"

Jia Tan mook: "No sir, they're just reverting and blacklisting our accounts and releases. Muttering something about 'uptime'."

Jia Tan officer: "Shit, we're dealing with sysadmins."

jessekv 9 months ago | [–]

https://xkcd.com/705/

flomo 9 months ago | [–]

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Dalewyn 9 months ago | | [–]

If a government agency tasked with national security started caring about a critical home project by Nebraskaman only and long after Nebraskaman collapsed, that country needs a new government agency.

arrowsmith 9 months ago | | [–]

I imagine that government security agencies are mainly thinking "shit, why didn't we think to do that?"

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